[NCUC-DISCUSS] Launch of NCUC Chat - A platform for NCUC collaboration

[KASWESHA]

Kudos! This a job well done keep up James and Rafik, I have already
registered and made my first comment which was responded to by James.


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On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> please find below the message about a new experiment to be conducted for
> NCUC and looking forward your participation.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Rafik Dammak
>
> NCUC Chair
>
> =========================================================
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am happy to announce we are going to launch a new real-time chat
> platform for NCUC members.
>
> *https://ncuc.chat* <https://ncuc.chat>
>
> We will run the platform for a few months as a pilot, extending
> functionality of the platform and integrating it with the various services
> we use across ICANN, with a vision to try and utilise it to bring some
> real-time collaboration to NCUC members. We feel that NCUC should be
> leading the way in bringing innovative collaboration to ICANN policy work
> and we hope that you will join us in this pilot phase!
>
> Please sign up and get chatting to all your fellow NCUC members! We are
> launching this now in advance of the ICANN meeting in Helsinki to get
> everyone onto the platform and familiar before we have our first meeting
> where we can use its features to bring some real-time collaboration to this
> new meeting format at ICANN focused on policy discussion and with need of
> lot of coordination.
>
> ———
>
> *How to register:*
>
> Go to https://ncuc.chat , click on register a new account. Enter your
> chosen username, password and email address.
> The system will send you a registration confirmation email, click on the
> registration link and login to the platform.
>
> *How to use:*
> You can access the chat from any browser by going to https://ncuc.chat or
> you can download apps for Window, Linux, Apple iOS and OSX and Android at
> https://rocket.chat/.
>
> Once in the system you will see a number of channels have been setup on
> the left hand side of the window. Some channels as examples are
> #ICANN-56-Helsinki to collaborate on the next ICANN meeting, or
> #ccwg-accountability to connect and share information about the critical
> work of the IANA transition.
>
> Feel free to join in the conversation and contribute, or start your own
> public and private chats to chat to other NCUC members. Direct messages can
> be sent between members also using the direct messaging function.
> The archives of the chat are available to all who sign up and will be
> available on a public archive soon.
>
> *Security and Accessibility:*
> Given the diverse membership of NCUC it was critical to ensure that this
> platform is secure and accessible to all of our members. All chats are
> encrypted over SSL/TLS and the ncuc.chat server receives an A+ rating on
> SSL-Labs https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ncuc.chat&latest .
> Direct messages between online users can be encrypted using OTR secure
> messaging by clicking the Off The Record button while chatting in direct
> messages.
> The site presents all of its information over HTTP and should be
> accessible from any country on earth, please feel free to message me if you
> have any troubles connecting in your country.
>
> ———
>
> *Disclaimer:*
> This platform is not intended to replace the NCUC-Discuss mailing list as
> the official location of all formal NCUC communications and is merely
> intended to provide an additional channel for more real time and accessible
> communications to our members.
>
>
> Please feel free to reach out to me with any further questions.
>
> Regards,
>
> James Gannon
>
>
>
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